Partnerships & Support

Princeton University students, faculty, and staff interested in receiving funding from the Lewis Center for the Arts for an upcoming project or event, please read the following guidelines and then submit your proposal using the form below. We will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you!

Guidelines to receive funding from the Lewis Center for the Arts:

Proposals must be received at least 4 weeks prior to the date when the funding is needed.

All proposals must specify the exact arts related component of the event and/or project.

Proposals must include a full project budget and indicate other sources of funding received or pending.

The department or group requesting funding must be directly connected to Princeton University.

Contact Information

Organizer*

Must be a Princeton-affiliated group or department/program

Main Contact*

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Position and/or Class Year

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Project Details

Please provide a description of your event or project*

Please highlight the arts related component of your event or project*

Total Project Expenses*

Amount requested from the Lewis Center*

Brief description of how these funds will be used*

Please list funding received or requested from other campus departments or organizations

Der Bourgeois Bigwig

The Lewis Center and the Department of Music collaborated to present the world premiere of Der Bourgeois Bigwig, a new adaptation by James Magruder of the Molière comedy Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme written to complement Richard Strauss’ well-known orchestral suite and incidental music from 1912. Tim Vasen, director of the Program in Theater, and Michael Pratt, director of the Program in Musical Performance, joined together with the idea to unite the now-famous music with a new script, and commissioned Magruder to pen the new version based on Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss’ Der Bürger als Edelmann, which was itself an early twentieth-century musical adaptation of Molière’s seventeenth-century comédie-ballets. The production brought together some forty-two musicians, fourteen actors, and many other student and faculty contributors to give the new play its world premiere at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center in November 2012.

“Memory and the Work of Art”

In 2011, The Lewis Center for the Arts partnered with the Princeton University Art Museum, the Princeton University Council of the Humanities, the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and the Princeton Departments of Psychology and Molecular Biology and 10 other community and university collaborators to present a series of exhibitions, concerts, performances, readings and lectures to mark the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. These presentations, across greatly varied disciplines, sought to address the same question: how do the arts shape our collective memory of the past, and how does art decipher loss and inform our experience of global events? Presentations ranged from neuroscience lectures to theatrical performances and musical concerts to guest speakers from a host of disciplines, most of which were free and open to the community. In total, the partnership resulted in over 30 special events in commemoration of this national tragedy and in exploration of this humanitarian and scientific question.

Seuls en Scène – Princeton French Theater Festival

In September 2012 and 2013, the Lewis Center, the Department of French and Italian, and the student theater troupe L’Avant-Scène presented the ‘Princeton French Theater Festival,’ which brought a new generation of French actors and directors to the University and local community, creating exciting opportunities for both audiences and student performers alike. These performers brought productions ranging from historical to autobiographical, all offering a distinctly French theatrical performance idiom, and all performed in their original French. These performances were supplemented by workshops taught by the artists, available for students in the Program in Theater and Department of French and Italian, and other opportunities to learn and gain exposure to this wonderful and unique theatrical culture. Additional support was provided by Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Questions?

If you have questions, please contact Marion Young, Administrative Director: 609-258-4709 or youngmf@princeton.edu.

The Lewis Center for the Arts is designed to put the creative and performing arts at the heart of the Princeton experience. This mission is based on the conviction that exposure to the arts, particularly to the experience of producing art, helps each of us to make sense of our lives and the lives of our neighbors.